Benjamin laweence



(No Model.)

B. LAWRENCE.

METALLIC PEN.

No. 268,249.; Patented Nov. 28, 1882.

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NITED, STATES PATENT OFF CE.

. BENJAMIN LAWRENCE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METALLIC PEN.

v SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,249, dated November 28, 1882.

Application filed March 13, 1882; (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN LAWRENCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metallic Pens, of which the following is a specification.

' My invention relates to improvements in metallic pens, and has for its object the pro duction of a double-ended metallic pen with two nibs or points-one at each end--in such a manner that when completed for use it can be broken apart in the middle, and thereby constitute two pens.

Figure 1 represents a double-ended pen embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents the form of a double-ended pen separated in the middle. Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8 represent modified forms of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts on each figure.

Metallic pens are struck out singly, by means of a die, fromsheets or strips of metal, and each pen has to be separately pointed,polished, tempered, bronzed, and otherwise treated before being ready for commerce. The various processes and manipulations which thesesmall articles have to undergo before they are in a finished condition entail great labor and expense, and necessarily occupy considerable time.

The purpose of my invention is to decrease the labor and time employed in the manufacture and preparation of metallic pens, and conseq uentl y materially reduce their cost.

Tothe accomplishment of this end my invention consists in producing from a single piece of metal a double-ended pen, said metal being weakened at the middle, so that when the customary slits are placed at the opposite ends a completed two-mlobed pen isproduced, capable of being easily separated, thus providing two metallic pens of the conventional character.

1 am aware that making pens with points at either end is not broadly new with me; but

so farno provision has been made for so shaping the blank that it can easily be severed by hand, and thus produce two perfect pen-nibs. In carrying out myinvention I make the blank preferably in the form shown in Fig. 1, which consists ofa straight ribbon ot metal, A, pointed at either end, and having two central angular pieces cut away, forming the openings at a, between which is a narrow connecting-piece, a, of the metal, sufficiently'strong to hold the whole together during process of manufacture and packing, but which can be easily broken by hand, thus producing i two perfect pens, as shown in Fig. 2.

Instead of forining'the openings a a of the divergence shown in Fig. 1, they can be made of various degrees of inclination, and may be so formed as to leave a central band, I), of any desired width, as shown in Fig. 3. This band can be perforated to facilitate the breaking apart.

As a modified form of carrying out my inventiou, I sometimes indent the connecting strip or band b, as plainly shown in Fig. 4, wherein a curved or angular depression, I), is made when the blank is struck out, which forms a guide in order to facilitate breaking the blank in two.

I do not desire to confine myself to any special shape of the parts cutaway from the blank centrally, as it is obvious such can be indefinitelyvaried and be within the scope of my invention. V

It is manifest that it requires but a single operation of a suitable die to punch out all the parts of my blank for a double separable pen.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim is A separable double metallic pen provided with points at each extremity, and having a central portion weakened, substantially as de scribed.

BENJAMIN LAWRENCE.

Witnesses:

WM. H. FOWLER, ALBERT ASHER. 

